Milton Keynes onsite location
12-month FTC
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as the Post Production Manager for Zest offers a unique opportunity to lead the development of a new post-production arm dedicated to transforming high-quality content for diverse channels such as E-commerce, Marcom, PR, and Social. Collaborating closely with in-house studios and creative teams, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing and delivering assets for renowned brands like Sainsbury's, Habitat, Argos, and Tu. With a focus on automation, AI, CGI integration, and operational excellence, this role provides a platform to drive innovation, mentor teams, and shape the future of post-production workflows in a dynamic and inclusive environment.
What you'll do
As the Post Production Manager at Sainsbury's Zest, you will lead the new post-production arm to edit and transform high-quality content for E-commerce, Marcom, PR, and Social channels, in collaboration with in-house Studios, production, and creative teams. Your role entails ensuring content, retouching, and edit guidelines align with brand objectives, meeting KPIs, SLAs, and operational targets. With a keen eye for detail and expertise in creative retouching and edit techniques, you will drive automation initiatives, onboard new AI and CGI suppliers, lead post-production strategy, mentor team members, develop business cases for new partnerships, and implement workflows leveraging AI and CGI technologies. Your success will be measured by successful supplier integration, team adoption, metrics tracking, early wins delivery, and streamlined post-production workflows, making a significant impact on content creation and delivery processes.
Who you are
As a Post Production Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a dynamic and strategic leader with a strong background in post-production operations and asset management workflows. Your experience in creative agency or in-house studio environments, coupled with your proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, enables you to drive the implementation of new CGI and AI partnerships, streamline post-production workflows, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality content for E-commerce, Marcom, PR, and Social channels. Your ability to innovate, communicate effectively, and foster collaboration across technical and creative teams positions you to drive impactful change, optimise operational processes, and ensure the successful integration of new technologies to enhance Sainsbury's brand objectives and meet operational targets.
Essential criteria
Experience in post‑production operations and asset management workflows – you’ll be the go‑to expert across retouching, editing, CGI and delivery.
Demonstrable project management skills, including planning, reporting and coordinating teams to deliver at pace.
Previous experience in a creative agency or in‑house studio environment with experience of how content flows end to end.
Working knowledge of Adobe Workfront and Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems.
Experience onboarding and managing large suppliers, ideally across AI, CGI, retouching or editing.
Hands‑on experience using or implementing automated production tools or systems.
Leadership and mentoring experience, supporting editors, retouchers and post‑producers.
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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK, with one of the largest retail websites. So marketing here happens at scale. We move faster than you might expect too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360 and Insights. With more people shopping with us every week, there are more interactions, more moments to connect. And thanks to data and insight, we understand our customers in a way few others can. We work alongside incredible brand partners and some of the best agencies in the industry. So if you’re passionate about learning, growing and experiencing new teams, come and explore it all with us.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).